Georgia · Nonprofit
PAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED
PAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED (Georgia) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,054,590 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($371,808). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 76
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Paws Atlanta Incorporated does
Mission
Paws atlanta, inc. (the "organization") is a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) animal welfare organization founded in 1967, originally as the dekalb humane society. It was organized under the laws of georgia and registered a name change with the georgia secretary of state in early 2003. Paws atlanta, inc. Is a no-kill animal shelter that provides love, nutrition, medical care, and behavioral training to enrich the lives of homeless animals until permanent, safe homes can be found. The mission of paws atlanta, inc. Is to build a community of caring by people helping pets and pets helping people. The organization delivers on this mission by offering pet adoption services, spay and neuter clinics, pet vaccine clinics, behavioral training, pet dental clinics, health preventatives, a pet food bank, education through summer camps for youth and education through community outreach. The majority of the organization's revenues come from program fees, donations, and fundraising activities. The organizat
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Paws atlanta is the oldest and one of the very few no-kill nonprofit animal shelters in georgia. It is our mission to build a community of caring by people helping pets and pets helping people. We accomplish this by offering: pet adoption services, pet vaccination clinics, spay and neutering, pet dental clinics, health preventatives, summer camps for kids, a pet food bank and education through community outreach to the metro atlanta area. Paws atlanta has placed more than 46,000 homeless animals into permanent, loving homes since their inception in 1967.
$1,639,366 spent$102,035 earned by the program96% of program spendingPaws atlanta provides affordable pet wellness clinics to the public. All of the services offered by paws atlanta are focused on providing for the humane treatment of animals and educate the public on responsible pet ownership.
$24,581 spent$112,159 earned by the program1% of program spendingDepreciation
$34,986 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,698,933.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.8M to $3.4M (+22%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 9% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of PAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Patty Lavely
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $54k → $327k.
13 of 76 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of PAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 76 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
PAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
78% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 56% · 2019 40% · 2020 30% · 2021 19% · 2022 21% · 2023 15% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
49% of PAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of PAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.0M that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 23 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
PAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED's revenue grew 23% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED?
- PAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED (Georgia) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,054,590 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($371,808). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 76 organizations giving $2,054,590 in grants to PAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $371,808 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 76 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing